Introduction

This project is within a collaborative program between the "Hasso-Plattner-Institut for Digital Engineering gGmbH" (HPI) of University of Potsdam and Faculty of IT at the Beijing University of Technology. The teaching cooperation between Potsdam and Beijing was initialized by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel and formally launched on 26th September 2005 (previously in 2002-2005 at University of Trier).

The tele-lecture of this project is about "Internet Security: Weakeness and Targets" given by Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel. This lecture has been proved to be a great success of the program. Supported by the innovative Tele-teaching/e-learning technique self-developed by Prof Meinel's Team at HPI, hundreds of Chinese IT students in Beijing have followed the lecture with German students over the Internet.  

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About the Lecture

"Internet Security - Weaknesses and Targets" is based on "Internet- & WWW-Technologies" and gives a detailed introduction on problems concerning Internet and Intranet security. After starting with some remarks on risk analysis and computer crimes, security weaknesses and targets are discussed in detail. Beside others the following topics are discussed in detail: human factor and technical failures, attacks on accounts and passwords, attacks on Internet protocol, misuse of design and programming errors, weaknesses in common operating systems, targets in the WWW, and viruses. The lecture course concludes with a discussion about the possibilities to detect attacks and intrusions and also describes ethical issues.

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel (HPI&BJUT)

Tutors: Dr. Feng Cheng (HPI) and  Prof. Dr. Lijuan Duan (BJUT) 

The lectures of the course are being streamed on: teleMeida (available on BJUT Campus Network) and tele-TASK (HPI).


Team


Background

Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing is the extension of the former cooperation project, Internet Bridge Trier-Beijing, between University of Trier and Beijing University of Technology from October 2002. The Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing will be a regular and long term collaborative activity in the computer science education fields  between Germany and China. Also, in the framework of the Internet-Bridge Potsdam-Beijing, two groups of Chinese students have been studied at HPI for a doctoral degree since October 2001.


News

  • August 2025: The second edition of BUAA Summer School was held from August 24- September 6, 2025 in Beijing. Two courses, "Internet and WWW" and "Cybersecurity: Basics", were given by Dr. Cheng, Dr.-Ing. Najafi, and Prof. Meinel. A total of 20 undergraduate students attended the courses and collected credit points for their bachelor studies at BUAA. The courses were supported by Prof. Hailong Yang, Dr. Zhibo Xuan, and Mr. Xuezhu Wang (BUAA) (see more photos).
  • August 2024: Prof. Meinel, Dr. Feng Cheng, Dr.-Ing. Pejman Najafi have been invited to give two courses (each with 16 teaching hours for thereotical lectures and practical exercises), "Internet and WWW" and "Cybersecurity: Basics" in the 2024 BUAA Summer School from August 14- September 2, 2024.A total of 46 undergraduate students from various disciplines attended the courses and collected credit points for their bachelor studies at BUAA. The courses were supported by Dipl.-Inf. Song Ji (HPI) and Prof. Hailong Yang (BUAA) (see more photos).
  • May 2024: The oral exam of the tele-lecture "Internet Security: Weakness and Targets" for WS2023/24 has been successfully carried out on 07.05.2024 at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) with 15 master students. While the stay in Beijing, Prof. Meinel and Dr. Cheng have also given talks and tutorials to the local students, researchers and professors and visited some well-known research labs in Beijing (see more photos).
  • November 2023: The 22nd time of the tele-lecture "Internet Security: Weakness and Targets" for WS2023/24 will be kicked off this week on 09.11.2023. 15 students from various master programs in the Faculty of IT at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) will be following this lecture online in this semester. 
  • June 2023: Prof. Meinel, Dr. Feng Cheng and the Sec-Eng team were invited to provide the lecture series on Cybersecurity to the NJU summer school on June 28-30, 2023. More than 100 undergraduate students from Nanjing University (NJU) have followed the three days' online lectures on "Cybersecurity: Basics", "Network, Systems & Application Security", and "Cybersecurity in Practice" (see the News from NJU).
  • March 2023: The oral exam of the tele-lecture "Internet Security: Weakness and Targets" for WS2022/23 has been successfully carried out on 23.03.2023 at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT). During the trip, Prof. Meinel has also had the meetings with Prof. QIAO, Junfei (Vice President BJUT) and many other partners in Beijing, Shanghai, and Nanjing. Prof. Meinel has given scientific talk on "Digital Technologies for Sustainable Development" at Nanjing University (NJU) and BJUT (see the News at BJUT and NJU, and more photos). The next iteration of this tele-lecture has been scheduled to start in October 2023.
  • November 2022: The 21st time of the tele-lecture "Internet Security: Weakness and Targets" for WS2022/23 to the master students from Faculty of IT at Beijing University of Technology (BJUT) has started on 26.10.2022.
  • July 2022: The oral exam of the tele-lecture "Internet Security: Weakness and Targets" for WS2021/22has been successfully carried out on 15.07.2022. Due to Covid-19, we had to do the oral exam for the third time in a row in the virtual format. 20 master students have participated at the session over Zoom. The next iteration of this tele-lecture has been scheduled to start in October 2022.
  • July 2022: As a part of a two-week interdisciplinary summer school at Nanjing University (NJU), Prof. Meinel, Dr. Feng Cheng and the team were invited to give the lecture series on "Cybersecurity: Basics and Practices". The summer school is funded by NJU's Global Engagement for Strategic Partnership Program and the Sino-German Cross-Cultural International Scientific Research and Training Program on Theory & Application of Social Computing (see News from NJU and HPI).